The issue includes ‘Type Now’ (with articles by Jan Middendorp, Sarah Snaith and Peter Biľak on three burning issues in contemporary type); an article about the late Bram de Does; Ferdinand Ulrich visits the living archive that is Rainer Gerstenberg’s foundry in Darmstadt and Paul Barnes’s excavation of the St Bride ‘treasure trove’ that inspired Commercial Classics. Eye Before You Buy’ the special issue here

Drew’s ABCs is a project of passion that Ned and Brenda have been dreaming about accomplishing for the past 5 years. Limited to an edition of 350. In its wonderful pages, the alphabet comes alive. The concept for the book was to expose the richness of diversity within typography and celebrate its differences.

Pengiun designer Tom Etherington explains, “as a homage to Frankenstein, the endpaper pattern in the latest issue of The Happy Reader is made from every image in the magazine, dismembered and then reassembled.” So very clever!

Eye 97 is entirely devoted to editorial design – The mags profiled span both independent and mass-market titles. The ‘Front matter’ section includes articles about a new type scheme for students, while the ‘Uncoated’ section tackles punk graphics at Cranbrook, other features include Peter Biľak’s Works That Work, membership magazine, and David Crowley delights in the surrealist layouts and covers of Ty i Ja, an ambitious Polish magazine from the 1960s. Check out ‘Eye Before You Buy’ gives viewers a glimpse of the entire issue.